How Books Can Save Democracy argues that American democracy is in trouble. Healthy democracies thrive on constructive disagreement: individuals and groups engaging with different points of view on school boards, city councils, juries, a...Lasīt vairāk
This book brings together scholarship and debates on citizenship and democratic innovation, and examines how democratic innovations might change, or even consolidate, the existing contours of citizenship....Lasīt vairāk
After four years of research in partnership with over twenty scientists and esteemed experts, this book explores one of the most significant questions we face: the existence or non-existence of a creator God. For more than four cent...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 23-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198888550)
This book shows how sortal quality grounds both pleasure and desire. It ends by exploring what a moral theory might say that put the ideal of a good person, considered as a case of sortal quality, at its heart....Lasīt vairāk
Stunning paperback edition of this fresh translation of Montaignes most profound, searching essays, with an introduction from Yiyun Li, author of The Book of GooseThis gift-worthy collection of 16 essays by the father of the essay...Lasīt vairāk
From the bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees comes a future classic for new and experienced writers, for readers and for those who simply want to know how to train their creativity and listen to their soul...Lasīt vairāk
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringMarcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE) was one of the most influential figures in late republican Rome, a moment of great social, political, and cultural unrest that would lead to the...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 23-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: The New Press, ISBN-13: 9781620979815)
A vital resource for progressives who want to win. Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal Progressive activists will want to dog-ear, underline, and pore over this well-conceived handbook. Kirkus Reviews How do underdogs, facing far str...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 23-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192889256)
Promising, consenting, and even attacking someone are ways to rewrite our rights, permitting others to treat us in ways that would otherwise have violated the duties they owe us. When unsure whether such a change has been made, we face normative o...Lasīt vairāk
An exploration of the range of human emotions and interactions as reflected in the lectionary stories of the liturgical year, through the curious, thought-provoking lens of a philosopher. In this compelling guide, Vance Morgan invites...Lasīt vairāk
Amidst rising tensions affecting democracy, capitalism and planetary life, this book discusses the multiple crises, processes and conflicts reconfiguring modernity. Tracking the political, social and ecological dynamics at play, it offers a critical...Lasīt vairāk
Never Enough Time discusses the directional and irreversible nature of time, its relationship to information and entropy, the deep time history of communication from the genesis of language to today, and the extent to which we occupy time t...Lasīt vairāk
This book presents a critical history of Yugoslav socialist economics, from its inception in the late 1940s to its dissolution in the late 1980s. After the dramatic break with the Soviet Union in 1948, Yugoslavia found itself in urgent need of a t...Lasīt vairāk
This volume is the first to be dedicated exclusively to the philosophy of Susan Stebbing (1885-1943)-a pivotal figure in early analytic philosophy who has, until recently, been unjustly neglected. The eleven historical essays that comprise the volum...Lasīt vairāk
From Plato to the present day, political theorists have used models of idealistic societies to think about politics. In this thought-provoking book, David Wiens argues that these models cannot provide the normative guidance many theorists have hoped...Lasīt vairāk
Susan Stebbing: Analysis, Common Sense, and Public Philosophy is the first edited volume to be dedicated exclusively to the philosophy of Susan Stebbing (1885-1943)-a pivotal female figure in the male-dominated tradition of early analytic ph...Lasīt vairāk
From Plato to the present day, political theorists have used models of idealistic societies to think about politics. In this thought-provoking book, David Wiens argues that these models cannot provide the normative guidance many theorists have hoped...Lasīt vairāk
